Naoko Mori Quotes
I have this belief about things happening organically. I believe life has this organic flow in a way.
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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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I'd been brought up on musicals. Instead of cartoons, we watched videocassettes of musicals at home.
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My parents made certain I had no illusions about acting. To them, it was always just a job.
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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The strange thing is, no matter what, when you become some kind of public figure, you have your go-to answers for all scenarios and instances.
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I'm disappointed that I really haven't been able to race in a way that is reflective of the amount of work that I have done and how I have trained. But I don't regret giving this a go.
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The question Americans should ask is not whether a candidate is affiliated with a particular faith but rather whether that candidate's faith makes it more likely he or she will support policies that align with their values.
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When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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I love helping out good people who are doing good things.
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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
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It is a general truth that students of language in every era try to colonize some or all of the other human sciences.
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The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.
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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
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I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow.
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I do not believe on giving amnesty.
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I think debates are healthy. I think they include more people. And I don't believe most people, if they don't win, are just going to take their ball and go home.
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I have this belief about things happening organically. I believe life has this organic flow in a way.
